Friday, March 31, 2006

WEB-BLOG - FIRST ASSESSMENT

Hi Everyone

Please note your Personal Blogs are now accessible directly from theBCB703 Weblog menu on the right hand side - please look at each othersand provide comments! If there is a problem with the linking just put acomment up and I will attend to it.

Your first assessment of your Weblog will be undertaken on the 7thApril. From then on monthly assessments will be done and these marksaccumulated to form the final mark for your Weblog. Your Blog counts 30%of the Scientific Methods BCB703 course. Please see my first posting onthis site. By this time you should have set up your Blog and have atleast five original postings. From now on you should maintain 3 postingsper week that reflect some of the issues that you face as you undertakeyour Honours studies. Personal expressions are also useful but therewill be an emphasis on the depth of your postings and their relevance tocontemporary science and society. This does include issues of ethics andwhat is currently happening in the world.

PLEASE REVIEW MY POSTINGS ON WEBLOGS TO HELP ESTABLISH THE USEFULNESSOF YOUR EFFORTS IN MAINTAINING A WEBLOG.

http://bcb703.blogspot.com/2006/03/introduction-to-weblogs.html

Some General comments to help you

Provide some info (biography) and photos of yourself this will helpintroduce yourself to the class on the other side of the country.

Make the effort to post useful links and articles so that it helps withyour revision and collecting of information for your project.

Some Specific comments to help you

Bevan and Bradley - you seem to be promising stuff but not deliveringanything - its time to start applying yourselves. There is no excuse fornot putting anything up on your Blog, you will need to start applyingyourself and getting down and doing some work this year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!I will not be giving any more warnings just marks to reflect yourefforts. This is a core module that you will need to pass to ensuresuccessful completion of the Honours programme.

Elizabeth and Annamarie you have made a start and have several postingsbut somehow there seems little connection to the science and society oryour current studies. Personal expressions are fine, including those offrustration, but we want to know what useful resources you have found(links of scientific interest), how is the field-work going? What haveyou discovered about your project? OK so a little more focus, but I dolike the regularity that Elizabeth is posting and there is depth offeelings here - your last posting was really nostalgic for me - I havenot thought about Afrikaans Poets for several years and not to any depthsince school!

Bentley - some great photos and I know the Chinese say a picture isworth a thousand words - but actually we are requiring the thousandwords of original expression since to paste a picture these days is sovery easy! Nevertheless a nice design and a touch of humour but needsmore content!

Riaan - hey dude some strong images and you have put up some stuffthat's good for debate - but where do you stand? Should we continue tocriminalize the use of Dagga or let people do damage to themselves? Atleast you put up some of your own views on the Global Dimming. We have adigital copy of Global Dimming video if anyone is interested. Good thatyou are providing links to other sites!

Vincent - glad that you are getting into the frog field work - butsurely some of the scientific thoughts we are exposing you to arestimulating some thoughts that need to find expression? We are expectingat least three postings a week.

Karen - you say "never to young to learn" - well you are getting intothe cyber age very fast - well done! Yes doing an Honours in ECOLOGICALINFORMATICS is a bit of a roller coaster - but that's the excitement andfrustration of the IT world. I think you are expressing yourself verywell - concise but communicative.

David - these are just like research articles - I really was interestedwith youR last boat trip - these are really informative submissions andits great to see such enthusiasm - I thing this cyber trip will besomething you will remember.

PRETORIA LEARNERS

You will also need to start your Weblogs as soon as possible. Can youplease use the www.blogger.com service so that we can compare this tothe other blog-services that people have found. Let me know if you haveany difficulties, but the help is really easy to get you started. Youwill be expected to modify your templates with some html in a littlewhile. When you have your Blog setup please makes a new posting with thelinks to your site and FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS FOR POSTING ARTICLES ONTHE WEB!

hi Richnow i can access weblog,please give me the whole e-mails where i am supposed to mail the work and specify what to summit on it because i am little confused which e-mail do i have to submit allthe work.my blog is http://pnkoana.blogspot.com and my e-mail is pnkoana@csir.co.za.

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An introduction to research techniques, planning, execution, analyses, and presentation of information. Reading and writing skills and interpretation of data. Preparation of scientific research for publication. This part of the module counts 10 credits